Have You Seen: Stargate Atlantis (2004 Pilot)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week we discover "Rising", the 2004 pilot episode of Stargate Atlantis, which was the science fiction spinoff to Stargate SG-1 and follows a scientific expedition to the lost Ancient city of Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy.We talk about what it feels like to watch the pilot episode in 2024 not having seen the rest of the series or the seven seasons of SG-1 preceding it, the show's handling of the main themes of insurgency and unintended consequences and how it distinguishes itself from SG-1, our favourite and least favourite characters, and much more.